FULL NAME: ANTONIO AYRTON SIMÕES FARIAS
DATE OF BIRTH: April/09/1956
BACKGROUND / CERTIFICATES
Certificate of Proficiency in English - Michigan University - Ann Arbor - USA (1973).
Certificate of Proficiency in English - Mary Beaubrun Course of English - Recife - PE - Brazil (1974).
Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) - Cambridge University - Cambridge - UK
(2003).
Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE - Superior) - Instituto Cervantes Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de España - Spain (2007).
Technical Industrial Degree in Telecommunications / Electronics (from ETFPE - Escola Técnica Federal de Pernambuco) - Recife - PE - Brazil (1975).
Higher Education Degree in Education - Major in Electronics - from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco -
Recife - PE - Brazil (1978).
Executive MBA on Management, Finance & Business - Vitória - ES - Brazil (2007).
Lato Sensu Graduate Program - System Engineering - Vitória - ES - Brazil (2017).
ADDITIONAL TRAINING (IT, since 1976)
Programming Languages (old): Cobol, Fortran, RPG, LTD, Basic.
Programming Languages (recent): Visual Basic, PHP, SQL (MySql), HTML/ HTML 5,
JavaScript, Java.
App Development (online): App Inventor, Thunkable, Kodular; B4A (Basic For Android,
offline).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Former Teacher of Electronics for 18 years.
Translator of Texts and Documents since 1973.
Conference Interpreter since 1988.
Has delivered training on Conference Interpreting Techniques since 2003.
Director and co-owner of Sismaltec - a company providing interpreters and equipment for simultaneous interpreting and RSI (Remote Simultaneous Interpreting).
Has interpreted 1000+ meetings (to this date) in Brazil and abroad.
Sworn Translator in Brazil (for English and Portuguese languages) since 2012 - for more details, click
here.
Languages: Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
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